Augustine Paredes is a Filipino multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working within the realms of image-making via photography, painting, poetry, performance, and installation.
His varied body of work questions what it means to desire in the light of love, loss, and longing. His lyrical, contemporary, and sensuous visual narratives are derived from migration, Filipino identity, and curious gaze.
He is a co-founder of Sa Tahanan Collective along with artist and curator Anna Bernice, they aim to create a platform for Filipino art and creatives through exhibitions, art sales, and collaborations.
He works as a commercial photographer specializing in fashion, portraits, and lifestyle; represented by Dubai-based agency, Seeing Things.
Artist Books
Conversations at the end of the universe (2020)
Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys (2021)
Happy To Be Here To Be Happy (2022)
The Bitter Taste of Sweetness (2022)
Solo Exhibitions
Paradise4Ever (2023)
Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
How Strangers Meet (2016)
Today X Future, Quezon City, Philippines
We Are Water (2015)
Abreeza, Davao City, Philippines
Edge of Seventeen (2012)
Lion’s Bar, Davao City, Philippines
Select Commissioned Projects
Between Many Bodies (Art Dubai)
Verses in Reverse (Alserkal Arts Foundation)
A Poem, A Garden (Alserkal Arts Foundation)
Slouching Through Bedspaces (Goethe Institut)
Goodnight, Sweet Dreams (Warehouse 421)
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication
Ateneo de Davao University
2010 — 2014
Residencies & Fellowships
Royal Commission of AlUla: AlUla Artist Residency (2022)
Salama Bint Hamdan Emerging Artists Fellowship Cohort 8 (2021)
Warehouse 421 x Gulf Photo Plus (2020)
Campus Art Dubai 7.0 (2019)
International Summer School of Photography (2018)
Select Professional Experience
Seeing Things Photographic Studio (UAE)
Art Director & Photographer
2019 - Present
Friendly Fires Small Press
Independent Publisher
2021 - Present
Sa Tahanan Co. (UAE)
Co-founder
2020 - Present
Coffee Communications (UAE)
Art Director 2017 - 2019
Select Group Exhibitions
The Bitter Taste of Sweetness, 2022
Royal Commission of AlUla, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Goethe Institut: Love Labor Leisure, 2021
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
Between the Sky and the Earth:
Contemporary Art from the UAE Middle East Institute, 2021
Washington DC, USA
As We Gaze Upon Her, 2021
Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi
Made In The Emirates?, 2021
Sotheby's DIFC, Dubai, UAE
Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures, 2020
Warehouse 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Sa Tahanan Co. Exhibit No. 1, 2020
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
Record Record: Long Night Stands With Lonely, Lonely Boys, 2019
Tarzeer Pictures, Manila, Philippines
Cooking Adobo in the Heart of Dubai, 2019
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
Select Press
Global Art Daily
Augustine Paredes Builds His Paradise Home at Gulf Photo Plus
Review by Sophie Arni
Fisheye Magazine
Le journal des errances physiques et intimes d'Augustine Paredes
NOLISOLI
Finding paradise as a Filipino artist living a thousand miles away from home
Text by Chrsitian San Jose
VOGUE Italia
Best Photobooks of 2020
NYLON Manila
Inspired by the humbe adobo, this Dubai-based Filipino artist sheds light on the migrant plight in this evocative series
Text by Angelo De Cartagena
East East
Passport: Arjun Appadurai reflects on a small object with big capacities
Text by Arjun Appadurai
Global Art Daily
Augustine Paredes Taking Up Space
Interview by Daniel Rey
Stir World
Augustine Paredes' food photography explores importance of collective sharing
Text by Dilpreet Bhullar
Video and Audio Interviews
NOWNESS
A window into Al Quoz, the community shaping a new creative vision for Dubai
Arts AlUla
Artist Residency Programme 22-23 Edition | Augustine Paredes
Khosh Bosh
Permission to Gaze with Augustine Paredes
Emerging Podcast
Augustine Paredes On love, loss and longing
Engage 101
Augustine Paredes Artist Profile
Tarzeer Pictures
Calling Myself Home